Monday, July 19, 2010

In Berlin (Germany), there is no service on subway line M1 between Wittenbergplatz & Möckernbrücke until the end of September. Tram lines M17 & 27 will be replaced by a bus service between Gehrenseestraße (resp. Hauptstraße / Rhinstraße) & Allee der Kosmonauten / Rhinstraße from Friday to Sunday.

Today in Paris (France), the usual summer works on the RER C are beginning: the service is interrupted between Austerlitz & Invalides. In addition, tram line T4 will be replaced by a bus service on Wednesday and Thursday evenings.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Works on line M8 in Berlin (Germany) have ended while the disruptions on line M1 are extended to the section between Eberswalder Straße & Pankow Kirche and service is interrupted on tram line 50 between Björnsonstraße & Pankow Kirche.

I just noticed some long-term works affecting services on subway line 5 in New York (USA), which I included in our "regular" database. While making the changes, I also spotted and fixed a few mistakes on the route description.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Some of you may have notived that our Google Gadget was broken in the last few days. It appears this was due to some unreported changes on Google's infrastructure. The good news is that the problem has been fixed and the gadget is now in full operation again.

We apologize for any inconvenience this incident may have brought to you.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

On July 11th, 2009, MetrO for the iPhone, version 0.9.0, was finally available on the Apple AppStore. One year and 4 versions later, we still are surprised by the success it had and continues to have.

For all it's worth, here are a few stats about this year on the AppStore:

MetrO has been installed 770,000 times (excluding updates).

The latest update, as the previous ones, has been installed about 300,000 times (infering that's roughly the number of "actual" users or, at least, people who have it on their phone and take the pain to keep it up to date).

About half of our users are in France (but many countries are underrespresented because the app is available only in French and English, so far). More details for the top countries (click on the image for a larger version):

Here is a graph showing the number of daily "first" installations and updates over the past year (click on the image for a larger version):

It made me realize that we had an existing file for the city (created with L. Collombet), that I had "forgotten" to release before... However, this database contains only a subset of the bus network, mainly the routes between Toulon and Six Fours, La Seyne & Les Mandriers.

Tram line 12 in Berlin (Germany) will be rerouted, between Zionskirchplatz & Oranienburger Tor, during the coming week-end. In addition, MetroTram line M8 will be replaced by a bus service between Schwartzkopffstraße & Mollstraße/Otto-Braun-Straße for a week, beginning on Saturday.

Friday, July 02, 2010

We are proud to announce that FamousWhy.com has given its "Famous Software Award" to both MetrO for Windows Mobile and Metro for s60, recognizing, among other criteria, "leadership in the software sector".

Update (July 6th): Metro for iPhone has received the "Famous Software Award" as well ;-)

A new version (again) of MetrO for iPhone is now available on the AppStore, making the app fully compatible with iOS 4 (and the iPhone 4): it fixes the display bug on icons (described here) and the behavior when going to the background has been improved.